For more than forty years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball as the national baseball columnist for the New York Daily News. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Steinbrenner, and has collaborated on memoirs by Lou Piniella and Don Zimmer. Madden was the 2010 recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award and is a member of the Writers Wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He lives in Florida.
"In the mind's eye, Tom Seaver, the consummate power pitcher who
transformed the hapless Metsies of my youth into the Miracle Mets
of 1969, is forever reaching back for that last ounce of strength
and thrust, his knee grazing the dirt of the pitching mound. New
York Daily News columnist Bill Madden witnessed and chronicled it
all--the misbegotten trade of The Franchise, the failure of the
front office to ensure his place on the team after his return, and
the cruel descent into dementia that forced him to withdraw from
public life. Drawing on their longtime friendship and thirty hours
of exclusive interviews with Seaver and his wife Nancy, Madden has
crafted a biography as terrific as its subject."--Jane Leavy,
author of New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: a Lefty's
Legacy
"Bill Madden was the only person who could write this book of our
dear friend Tom Terrific. Tom Seaver was Terrific. A Man's Man.
Brilliant, funny. the best competitor I ever knew and my
friend."
--Johnny Bench
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